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Hey everyone, I'm trying to get a grasp on where various fan-initiated translation projects for EP are at. Aside from the French translation that Black Book is working on and a Portuguese translation of the QSR in the works, I'd like to pin down what else is out there. I believe at various points I've also seen mention of efforts to translate EP materials into German, Italian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. Links would be good. Maybe we can bring some attention to these efforts and get other people involved to move them along. This might also help our efforts to score some foreign-language licenses.So if you know of anything, please post it here!

what I'm also wondering is if the fans in other countries are taking active part of the translation of the publishers' forum

on the French forum of Black Book, there is an active thread for the EP translation. the current project is the translation of Lack.
We do it for fun and to help the companies (BBE and Posthuman) to have the book translated more easily and faster. We don't know if BBE will use the offered translation -if they're even allowed to use it, actually - but it's a good exercise for our language skills and writing muscle

I translate the QSR into Japanese and upload its non-spoiler part(Introduction and charecters at start) on my site. Though EP isn't known in Japan (at least, as far as I know) and I have yet play it, I'll upload other parts, if I get positive reaction.

I've already translated the QSR and introductory adventure (trechriron is helping me out with the layout), the GM screen, the "Lack" introductory fiction and "A People's history of an unfortunate universe" to give my players, and JMobius' (and now Kindalas') spreadsheet, v 0.84 so far.

Also, for those of us willing to help out in the layout department, would Adam be willing to share the files for layout on the Quickstart? It would be immensely helpful keeping the look and feel. I am glad to be a "junior" and submit my work to Posthuman for oversight, sign an NDA, keep files confidential, et al (as wished by the Posthuman peoples). I know it gets busy, and it's a great learning opportunity for me, so I have no problem volunteering my time to help with the translation products. It's a good cause for our Eclipse Phase fellows across the globe! :-D

I know German, I work in localization. I totally want to do this. I'm in SoCal, working for Games and I absolutely love this game (writing fanfic, but busy, due to dayjob, boo). Seriously, let me help, don't care about money, just credit...errr... @rep.

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I believe this is the wrong forum for this post, since it smacks of a "whole translations of book & posting reports on what's going on" thread. Heck, I'll post here anyways... It seems like there's no other place! (lol)

I've only translated most of the various books' terms to Spanish. Mind you, I'm a bit Hispano-centric so I've "Spanished" most of what I could reasonably do (eg, changed most of the last names to Spanish sounding last names where reasonable)! If there are some already "real world" established terms, please, by all means resort to the original (I'm not very keen on cutting-edge scifi or real world avant garde science)!

There are also some basic word translations included in the text, mostly to remind myself of simple terms, when in doubt, in the middle of a session... Please, feel free to ignore these.

...Hmmm... Seems I have no idea on how to upload stuff here too, so I'll just cut & paste the whole text. Sorry for the inconviniences!

DISCLAIMER:
I believe this is the wrong forum for this post, since it smacks of a "whole translations of book & posting reports on what's going on" thread. Heck, I'll post here anyways... It seems like there's no other place! (lol)

I've only translated most of the various books' terms to Spanish. Mind you, I'm a bit Hispano-centric so I've "Spanished" most of what I could reasonably do (eg, changed most of the last names to Spanish sounding last names where reasonable)! If there are some already "real world" established terms, please, by all means resort to the original (I'm not very keen on cutting-edge scifi or real world avant garde science)!

what I'm also wondering is if the fans in other countries are taking active part of the translation of the publishers' forum
on the French forum of Black Book, there is an active thread for the EP translation. the current project is the translation of Lack.
We do it for fun and to help the companies (BBE and Posthuman) to have the book translated more easily and faster. We don't know if BBE will use the offered translation -if they're even allowed to use it, actually - but it's a good exercise for our language skills and writing muscle

They probably won't, or they would have asked already or talked about it.

It's a shame. Ombres Portées (the guys behind the French SR4) did it, asking for feedback and ideas on some of the glossary before finishing the SR4 Core Rulebook (and various sourcebook since). To my knowledge it was a first, and it was a great idea and a great help.

To bad it's not done again and in a more open way for the French EP. Some words are incredibly difficult or downright impossible to localize, and having 50 or 100 minds instead of a couple is always a good thing.

-Technically fine, however I feel that in the english version the term mesh was picked to differentiate it from the now commonplace use of the word net. Preferably I would suggest to stick with the english term mesh, otherwise if it really needs to be translated I would suggest using the word "Gewebe" to achieve the same seperation in german.

Hi there.
I'd be willing to help in the translation of EP to italian (my mothertongue)...is there any other which could help out?
I'm going to do it on spare time though...at the moment I'm backpacking across australia but I tend to read EP a lot. Just bought ego hunter ;)

What would be the best way to start? The "quick start rules" would be any good? I'm leaning towards those since they may give some sort of a sample of what the game's about...what do you guys think?

I would be interested in helping out with a Spanish translation project. I was born and still live in Latin America so Spanish is my native language. I also studied for twelve years in an English-speaking school so I can speak English fluently. I've never been part of an official translation project, but I like the idea.

If there's enough interest, we could get a group organized and working together in the translation process, maybe set up a private wiki or forums.

...but the pdf is watermarked AND protected! I can't even edit out the adventure before handing it to my players!
Seriously, BBE?!

the style and tone are well respected, but some of the translated are just...
well, look at it yourselves:
Biomorph= Pellis
Bouncer= folivore (leaf eater)
Reclaimers: ReclamaTerre (ReclaimEarth)
Skinethics: Hypeauthétique (hy-skin-thetical)
Ruster: Oxydé

I liked Audace for Moxie and Ecumeurs for the Scums and "animaux surevolués" pour uplifted animals. Ultimistes for the Ultimates is cool too

on the BBE forum, an errata thread has been open to help with the corrections, because as it is, it's quite distracting from the setting!

I don't understand why they didn't assigned the translation of EP to the Ombres Portées collective. Those folks did such a great job with Shadowrun, and EP doesn't have as much books as SR does.

I'm thinking of mixing the official translation with Okhin's. I've talking with Mandragorus and Blythe, two of my players, and they both agree with the idea of keeping proper nouns such as Morphs' brands, locations and hypercorps names, and the Mesh, as it is, untranslated.

(btw, that reminds me to ask him if someone has translated his games, Chroniques Uchroniques and Excidium, in English. It would be funny to make some crossover.

I am currently working on the translation to Traditional Chinese. The QSR is almost done, with about 100 page of the full rule scattering around. It is not exactly a faithful translation, as I prefer melting local culture within, as well as to translate the meaning, rather than sound or literally.

At some points of the book (I'm right now looking at the Echo IV description) the term "billion" is mentioned.

...Are we talking here about "american" billions (as in, a thousand millions) or "european" billions (as in, a million millions).

Because that would be kind of relevant ;)

I'm pretty sure they are going on American billions. As American writers, I presume that the developers are using the terms as they are commonly used here. Besides, the latter would make the math absolutely ridiculous... that would mean the extremely large population of Earth pre-fall would be 1,000 times larger than the overcrowded estimate they already gave.

My translation of the QSR is done (save the examples, actually). Currently I am translating the main rule book as well, with the Skills translated, and currently re-working on the translation of the character generation. The link can be found at my sig, or my post not too far from above. :p

That's a pretty solid translation, and apparently you have done more research that I did! :D
I've skimmed through your translation, it is quite nice, although the usage of words is understandably different than mine. Though, I believe that Agoniser (used by Gavin) should be translated somewhere closer to "苦痛者", as it is closer to both the meaning of the word and its function. :)

Otherwise, keep up the good work! You are welcomed to visit my Chinese translation too. :p

That's a pretty solid translation, and apparently you have done more research that I did! :D
I've skimmed through your translation, it is quite nice, although the usage of words is understandably different than mine. Though, I believe that Agoniser (used by Gavin) should be translated somewhere closer to "苦痛者", as it is closer to both the meaning of the word and its function. :)

Otherwise, keep up the good work! You are welcomed to visit my Chinese translation too. :p

Thank you for the correction. I must have rolled a critical failure in language test.:( But since I have published the rule on a forum I am quite familiar with and it has been downloaded over a hundred times, it may be too late to make the change, though I will post a thread and explain the mistake anyway. Besides, unfortunately I can't visit your web site here. Perhaps you can share it by some other ways if it doesn't bother too much? I am really looking foward to read the Traditional Chinese version.

Thank you for the correction. I must have rolled a critical failure in language test.:( But since I have published the rule on a forum I am quite familiar with and it has been downloaded over a hundred times, it may be too late to make the change, though I will post a thread and explain the mistake anyway. Besides, unfortunately I can't visit your web site here. Perhaps you can share it by some other ways if it doesn't bother too much? I am really looking foward to read the Traditional Chinese version.

Upon a quick wiki search, it appeared that the site that I used to host, Google Sites, was unfortunately blocked in mainland China. I am planning to host it on a mirror site because of it. Currently, I am thinking of reusing my old translation wiki here to host it. It was a bit broken as I am in the process of tearing down the draft for my new one, but I will restore it once I have reorganised the content. It would be great of you if you can tell me whether you (and people from mainland China) can access it, or better yet, suggest a site for hosting my rules! :)

In the meantime, I have downloaded the html of my QSR translation and packed them here for download. The sidebar and pictures would not work, but since I haven't done anything to them (I didn't buy that skill or have the gear. :p), I guess it is good enough as a makeshift solution for now.

Upon a quick wiki search, it appeared that the site that I used to host, Google Sites, was unfortunately blocked in mainland China. I am planning to host it on a mirror site because of it. Currently, I am thinking of reusing my old translation wiki here to host it. It was a bit broken as I am in the process of tearing down the draft for my new one, but I will restore it once I have reorganised the content. It would be great of you if you can tell me whether you (and people from mainland China) can access it, or better yet, suggest a site for hosting my rules! :)

In the meantime, I have downloaded the html of my QSR translation and packed them here for download. The sidebar and pictures would not work, but since I haven't done anything to them (I didn't buy that skill or have the gear. :p), I guess it is good enough as a makeshift solution for now.

Your old translation wiki works just fine here, but right now I can't download the QSR on Rapidshare, maybe you can try 4shared instead.

Your old translation wiki works just fine here, but right now I can't download the QSR on Rapidshare, maybe you can try 4shared instead.

I tried to upload it on 4shared, but it asked for e-mail verification, which I never received despite asking them to send again. I think once I clean up all the old translation, I will mirror my translation at the old wiki.

Damn, even though we are technically in one country, it sure is a lot of work to get us connected. Give us the mesh already! :D